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[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I disagree that parsing is validating. For example, you could give me a valid ISO date time string, but I want a shipping date and you gave me something in the past. It parses, but is not valid.

I disagree that validating early is bad because some other part of the code might also validate later and possibly do it differently. Yes, that's bad, but not a reason to not validate early.